Richard Raysman is a Partner and Elliot Magruder is an
Attorney in the
New York office
In 1999, the Uniform Law Commission promulgated the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). The primary purpose of
UETA is to equate the enforceability and validity of electronic
signatures with handwritten signatures. It has been adopted in 47
states. The three states that have not, Illinois, New York
and Washington, each have laws governing electronic signatures.
The latest electronic signature case, litigated under
Illinois's UETA equivalent, delves into whether the
plaintiff's provision of username and password to a third party
is a sufficient electronic signature so as to convey authorization
to a third party to execute on the plaintiff's behalf
an agreement requiring mandatory arbitration. See Mohammed
v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 2017 WL 590289 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 14,
2017).
